Cartridge-belt



(No Model.)

G. W. BARTON. CARTRIDGE BELT.

No. 501,642. Patented July 18, 1893.!

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.`

GEORGE WV. BARTON, OF BETHLEHEM, KENTUCKY.

CARTRIDGE-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,642, dated July 18, 1893.

Application led March 9l 1893. Serial No. 465,269. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ wwm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BARTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bethlehem, in the county of Henry and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Cartridge-Belt, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to improvements in cartridge-belts; the objects in view being to provide a belt that may be conveniently worn about the waist of a sportsman or soldier for the purpose of retaining in convenient and accessible position a series of cartridges, and to preserve the same against the weather.

Further objects of the invention are to so construct the device as to be self-supporting, that is, so as not to require shoulder-straps for its support; and also to adapt the same to serve as a convenient rest for the arm while supporting the gun or piece.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings:-,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cartridge-belt or holder constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section o f the same. Fig. 3 is a rear perspective. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I employ a leather belt l, the same being greater in width than the length of the cartridge which it is to support and therefore incapable of cutting or becoming uncomfortable while being carried.

Toward its rear ends the belt is reduced to form securing-straps 2 and 3 the former terminating in a buckle 4 and the latter having a series of holes into which the tongue of the buckle may be adjusted.

Secured to the sides of the belt at equidistant'points from the front center are curved cartridge=boxes 5, the same being preferably formed of light metal and curved to conform to the shape or contour of the waist of the person. These boxes 5 are oblong in cross-sec tion and somewhat greater in width than the length of the cartridge which they are to accommodate. The opposite upper and lower edges of the boxes are provided with lianges 6, and through the same and into the belt are passed rivets 7 whereby the boxes are secured in position. The front or adjacent ends of the boxes are rounded and provided with iinger-slots S between their ends which extend back some distance into the boxes and have their upper corners removed to form openings 9. The rear endsof the boxes are provided with sliding covers 10,Whose edges take into ways 11 with which the boxes are provided, said covers having rings 12 upon their rear sides by which they may be raised and lowered and having their upper ends bent to form stops 13 which overlapror rest upon the boxes as shown.

Located in each of the boxes is a coiledspring 14, the said spring having its coils made in the shape of the box in cross-section, that is, oblong, at their rear ends being designed to rest against the covers 10, and at their' front ends secured to curved follower-plates 15. This completes the construction of the belt, and the same is adapted, as before stated, to tit the waist of the wearer, being buckled in the backk so that the two exit ends are directly in front of the wearer and within convenient reach of his hands. It will be seen that the follower being infiuenced by the spring will at all times press the line of cartridges toward the front so that one cartridge in each box will always be directly under and in position to be readily grasped by the thumb and finger and withdrawn. In filling the boxes the foreinger is employed to press the line of cartridges back for the reception of the next succeeding cartridge, said forefinger being inserted in the slot 8 which is provided for that purpose. v

From the foregoing description it will be scen that I have provided a very cheap and simple belt or cartridge-holder, the same being designed to receive a number of cartridges and to feed them automatically to a position wherethey may be withdrawn, and that said piece is not in use, the user will find the boxes IOO very convenient to rest his elbow upon in supporting the piece, the same being very restful.

Having described my invention, what I claim is l. The combination with the belt adapted to encircle the waist of the person, of the opposite cartridge-receiving boxes, the same being curved to approximate the shape of the waist, coiled springs located in the boxes, follower-plates at the front ends of said springs, openings formed in the upper front corners of the boxes, and slots located below the openings, and extending longitudinal the boxes substantially as speciiied.

v 2. The combination with the belt terminating in the securing-straps, of the opposite metal boxes curved to conform to or approxi- GEORGE W. BARTON.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. CUREToN, W. S. THOMPSON. 

